Blood test results - help needed please

[dizzy1979]

Hi so finally I have my blood results, which as usual mean nothing to me, could someone please advise? My dr seems to think I need to reduce my self medicated ndt as I am getting to much thyroxine?

[silverfox7]

Your doctor seems ptetty much in the dark about testing if on any form of T3

Results are read differently so TSH should be suppressed, FT4 can fall in its range and FT3 should be high in its range and is the most accurate result of the three.

So no FT3 reading? No suppression of TSH!? The blurb gives two scenarios but he has chosen the most damning. Plus without FT3 it tells you nothing-sorry!

I take NDT and my TSH is 0.01 or 0.02 so I can't say you are taking too much medication without knowing what your FT3 reading is but looking at your TSH your aren't as suppressed I would have expected you to be! I would query why, when taking T3, your FT3 hasn't been tested. I would tell him it should be high but never over so could he ask for a retest and say to test FT3 as well as the other as you are taking T3.

If there is another doctor at your surgery then I would see if he is more knowledgable. I didn't look at your other results as on my phone and not so easy to read so concentrated on your thyroid as I also take NDT.

Let us know how you get on.

[dizzy1979 in reply to silverfox7]

Thank you got your reply. I am

Self medicating and my gp said he would do my bloods he requested full thyroid test but t3 was not tested, I will be testing privately this week. Would you suggest increasing meds to suppress tsh?

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to dizzy1979]

No wait to get full testing

[dizzy1979 in reply to SlowDragon]

Thank you

[Smelly12]

I had all blood works done. For vit thyroid etc. Iv asked for copy which will send. For someone to let me now if ok range as I have had muscle weekness that can’t stand doc said vit d very low. But this happens after 8 weeks on Teva thyroxine. Still not feeling good any one else or sugestions this happend when they changed my thyroid meds after years on actuvas to teva